Art Ahrens

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Art Ahrens born March 12, 1949, is the author/co-author of several baseball books and numerous free-lance articles. Ahrens, a Chicago born author and fan of the Cubs since he was seven years old, has written extensively on Chicago Cub baseball players of the past several decades. He attended his first Cub game on September 26, 1959, and witnessed a Cubs victory over the Dodgers 12-2.

Ahrens has co-authored (with the late Eddie Gold of the Chicago Sun-Times) five titles on Cubs history. Several of these co-authored books on the Cubs featured brief compilation biographies of famous Cub players over the years. His most recent book, Chicago Cubs:1926-1940,(Images of Baseball)(2005), is a pictorial history.